Treating suicidal clients with borderline traits can be conducive to burnout. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) may assuage this burnout in counselors. As part of a DBT treatment outcome study, 6 counselors in training ...

Most individuals fail the selection task, selecting P and Q cases, when they have to test descriptive rules of the form "If P, then Q". But they solve it, selecting P and not-Q cases, when they have to test deontic rules ...

Kemmelmeier examined implications of private self-consciousness for the relationships between social values and issue attitudes. Kemmelmeier expected that the value orientations of authoritarianism and individualism would ...

Following the November 2003 attacks in Turkey by Turkish Islamist extremists, we designed an experiment to assess the religious identification of Turkish Muslim students using the inclusion/exclusion model of social judgment ...

Critics of deception in research allege harm to society, the discipline of psychology, the researchers and participants. However, neither empirical findings nor a ‘reasonable-person’ test seem to support those allegations. ...

This special issue brings together contemporary research and theories that advance our understanding of culture as a process. The papers are loosely grouped by the types of cultural processes they address. Overall, the ...

According to a conversational approach, survey respondents provide answers they believe to be relevant to an interaction. Norenzayan and Schwarz (1999) demonstrated that participants provide dispositional accounts for an ...

Kemmelmeier sought to replicate and extend the findings of a link between a person's candidate preference and the degree of his or her authoritarianism in the US presidential elections of 1996 and 2000. The findings confirm ...

An obituary for university professor Carl Ward Backman, who died on Feb 16, 2008 at the age of 84, is presented. Following college, Carl earned a doctorate in sociology at Indiana University, and after four years at the ...

Based on a conversational logic framework (Grice, 1975), we examined the implications of rewarding performance on a reasoning task. We argued that, in the interaction between experimenter and participant, financial incentives ...

Racial-ethnic minorities are at risk of academic disengagement: pulling back effort in school. Our model focuses on the implications of content of racial-ethnic self-schemas (RES) for disengagement. We postulate that risk ...

Apologies are important in social interactions. Study 1 investigated participants' reactions after being insulted by a confederate and receiving no apology, a voluntary apology, a coerced apology with consequences (i.e., ...

Personal well-being and resilience are contingent on the ability to negotiate and successfully pursue personal goals through life tasks and opportunities afforded by one's social environment. Our research addresses these ...

In terms of the relationship between political orientation & cognitive functioning, Need for Closure Scale data from 93 German students at the U of Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany, support Theodor Adorno et al's ...